17th Congress

Seventeenth Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (b), January 26 to February 10, 1934

The XVII Congress of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks was held in Moscow from January 26 to February 10, 1934 and was called the "Congress of Winners". It is also known as the “Congress of the Executed”, because out of 1966 its delegates (1227 with a decisive vote, 739 with an advisory vote), about 70% died, becoming victims of the struggle for power during the Great Terror.

Order of the day

Report of the CPSU (b) (IV Stalin)

Report of the Central Auditing Commission (MF Vladimirsky)

Report of the Central Control Commission - RCI (Y. E. Rudzutak)

Report of the delegation of the CPSU (b) to the ECCI (D.Z. Manuilsky)

Plan of the second five-year plan (V.M. Molotov and V.V. Kuibyshev)

Organizational issues (party and Soviet construction) (L.M. Kaganovich)

Election of the central bodies of the party

Decisions of the Congress

In the field of political construction

- According to the report of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b): To approve the political line and practical work of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b), as well as the report of Comrade Stalin and invite all Party organizations to be guided in their work by the provisions and tasks put forward in the report of Comrade Stalin.

- According to the report of the Central Auditing Commission: The report of the Central Auditing Commission was approved

- According to the report of the CCC-RCI: The activities of the CCC-RCI were approved.

- According to the report of the delegation of the CPSU (b) in the Executive Committee of the Communist International: The political line and practical work of the delegation of the CPSU (b) in the Comintern have been approved.

In the field of economic development

- The results of the first five-year plan have been summed up.

- The second five-year plan for the development of the national economy of the USSR (1933-1937) was adopted, which provided for the transformation of the USSR into a "techno-economically independent country and the most technically advanced state in Europe."

- The program for the completion of the technical reconstruction of the entire national economy and the growth of production in the second five-year period was approved, presented by the State Planning Committee of the USSR, and adopted by the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR.

Established:

- control figures for the volume of production;

- directions for the implementation of technical reconstruction of the national economy;

- measures to increase labor productivity and reduce costs;

- growth of production throughout agriculture (2 times);

- measures for the complete completion of collectivization and implementation of the technical reconstruction of all agriculture;

- growth in the turnover of the main types of transport;

- directions of technical reconstruction of transport and communications;

- directions (program) of personnel training;

- the need for the broadest expansion of the work of scientific and technical institutes, and especially factory laboratories;

- the total volume of capital work on the national economy for the second five years in the amount of 133.4 billion rubles. (in 1933 prices) against 50.5 billion in the first five years;

- commissioning of new and reconstructed enterprises for the second five years with a total cost of 132 billion rubles. against 38.6 billion rubles. in the first five-year plan;

- the most important construction sites;

- directions for the distribution of productive forces (including the creation of new support bases for industrialization in the eastern regions of the Union (Ural, Western and Eastern Siberia, Bashkiria, Far East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan, and Central Asia);

- a program to improve the material and cultural level of workers and peasants, and tasks in the area of raising the material and cultural standard of living of workers and workers in the countryside.

The congress determined that the second five-year plan for the development of the national economy should solve 5 tasks:

- Elimination of capitalist elements and classes in general, final liquidation, on the basis of complete completion of collectivization of peasant farms and cooperation of all handicraftsmen, private ownership of the means of production; the elimination of the multi-structured economy of the Soviet Union and the establishment of the socialist mode of production as the only mode of production, with the transformation of the entire working population of the country into active and conscious builders of socialist society;

- Completion of the technical reconstruction of the entire national economy of the USSR on the basis created during the first five-year plan and following the path of a further rapid rise in industry that produces means of production (heavy industry);

- A more rapid rise in the well-being of the workers and peasants and, at the same time, a decisive improvement in the entire housing and communal affairs in the USSR;

- Strengthening the economic and political positions of the proletarian dictatorship on the basis of an alliance of the working class with the peasantry for the final elimination of capitalist elements and classes in general;

- Further strengthening of the country's defense capability.

The Congress elected:

Central Committee: 71 members, 68 candidates for members of the Central Committee.

Central Auditing Commission: 22 members.

Party Control Commission: 61 members.